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vi large files

Once upon a time a colleague asked me if there is a better editor than vi installed on my db server. Well, I was not really about arguing the benefit of ed (less memory usage, no useless error message). But one advantage of ed was (I believed) the ability to read large files

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Once in a while, the need to read a large log file arises.
However, I don’t see the convenience of using an editor for this purpose. I rather use a reader: less or zless for compressed files, as long as I don’t need to modify the file.